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Shipping companies are working on plans to prevent the spread of radioactive material by sea (Photo: Colin Thompson)

Radiation from Japan reaches Europe

Small amounts of radiation thought to come from Japan's crisis-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected across Europe.

On Tuesday (29 March), Britain's Health Protection Agency (HPA) said "the minutest" levels of radioactive iodine had been detected at its air monitoring stations in Oxfordshire and Glasgow over the past nine days.

It stressed however that the levels were too low to cause any risk to human health, peaking at 300 micro-becquerels per cubic metre b...

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Shipping companies are working on plans to prevent the spread of radioactive material by sea (Photo: Colin Thompson)

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